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Joe Beaudoin Jr.: Text replacement - "geocities.com" to "geocities.ws"

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Text replacement - "geocities.com" to "geocities.ws"

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	:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].		:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].
	:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
	::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.~~com~~/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[Battlestar_Wiki:Original_Series_Article_Development_Project\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.ws/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[Battlestar_Wiki:Original_Series_Article_Development_Project\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

	::I wouldn't consider myself an expert on developing articles, since I haven't really created many and one of two of them I cobbled together from other articles. But it's probably right that I can be very nitpicky when it comes to enforcing standards, and I do a lot of cleanup.		::I wouldn't consider myself an expert on developing articles, since I haven't really created many and one of two of them I cobbled together from other articles. But it's probably right that I can be very nitpicky when it comes to enforcing standards, and I do a lot of cleanup.

Catrope: /* Beyond the Red Line */ throw away the old stuff

2007-07-01T07:13:49Z

Beyond the Red Line: throw away the old stuff

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	Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)		Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)
	:Guess that's why they are always sending out those Raptors. They're not just scouting, but getting those star charts that Galactica dosn't need to generate at the moment. But still just to store all that data has to be a pain.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 17:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)		:Guess that's why they are always sending out those Raptors. They're not just scouting, but getting those star charts that Galactica dosn't need to generate at the moment. But still just to store all that data has to be a pain.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 17:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)
			::There are things to throw away as well, though: nobody's gonna need star charts of the Colonies or New Caprica :P --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 02:13, 1 July 2007 (CDT)

DuMan: /* Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article */

2007-06-30T22:15:55Z

Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article

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	::Anyways, the way you wrote it is fine. It doesn't need to be too elaborate. Any details can usually be found in the episode article you link to. But keep in mind that the standard tense here is present tense, except for event prior to the Miniseries. And for episode titles we put the commas outside the quotation marks, as those aren't real sentences. That's all detailed in [[BW:SAC]]. But noone expects that you get every little style thing right at the beginning, as others can clean up stuff.		::Anyways, the way you wrote it is fine. It doesn't need to be too elaborate. Any details can usually be found in the episode article you link to. But keep in mind that the standard tense here is present tense, except for event prior to the Miniseries. And for episode titles we put the commas outside the quotation marks, as those aren't real sentences. That's all detailed in [[BW:SAC]]. But noone expects that you get every little style thing right at the beginning, as others can clean up stuff.
	::As for the content. I'm not sure. It's certainly enough to conclude that ''something'' else might be at play. Whether that something is a big artificial intelligence is another thing. I'll see what others like Spence or Joe think about this. They have the strictest standard regarding derived content. --[[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 10:55, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		::As for the content. I'm not sure. It's certainly enough to conclude that ''something'' else might be at play. Whether that something is a big artificial intelligence is another thing. I'll see what others like Spence or Joe think about this. They have the strictest standard regarding derived content. --[[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 10:55, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

			Thanks everybody for the advice on sourcing and how to do it wiki style, but the only criticism I got on my idea for the god article was from Serenity. Feel free to jump in and argue against me, I am currently pumping up and clarifying my argument with more points. I would like to put more thought into writing the article, but I'd rather not until I know it can't be considered fanwanking and can be published on the god article. But hey, knowing my luck and the upcoming final season, god will be revealed as a supernatural being, or worse a figment of the cylon's imagination :(.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 17:15, 30 June 2007 (CDT)

	== Beyond the Red Line ==		== Beyond the Red Line ==

DuMan: /* Beyond the Red Line */

2007-06-30T22:04:32Z

Beyond the Red Line

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	Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)		Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)
			:Guess that's why they are always sending out those Raptors. They're not just scouting, but getting those star charts that Galactica dosn't need to generate at the moment. But still just to store all that data has to be a pain.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 17:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)

Catrope: Beyond the Red Line

2007-06-30T21:09:46Z

Beyond the Red Line

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	::Anyways, the way you wrote it is fine. It doesn't need to be too elaborate. Any details can usually be found in the episode article you link to. But keep in mind that the standard tense here is present tense, except for event prior to the Miniseries. And for episode titles we put the commas outside the quotation marks, as those aren't real sentences. That's all detailed in [[BW:SAC]]. But noone expects that you get every little style thing right at the beginning, as others can clean up stuff.		::Anyways, the way you wrote it is fine. It doesn't need to be too elaborate. Any details can usually be found in the episode article you link to. But keep in mind that the standard tense here is present tense, except for event prior to the Miniseries. And for episode titles we put the commas outside the quotation marks, as those aren't real sentences. That's all detailed in [[BW:SAC]]. But noone expects that you get every little style thing right at the beginning, as others can clean up stuff.
	::As for the content. I'm not sure. It's certainly enough to conclude that ''something'' else might be at play. Whether that something is a big artificial intelligence is another thing. I'll see what others like Spence or Joe think about this. They have the strictest standard regarding derived content. --[[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 10:55, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		::As for the content. I'm not sure. It's certainly enough to conclude that ''something'' else might be at play. Whether that something is a big artificial intelligence is another thing. I'll see what others like Spence or Joe think about this. They have the strictest standard regarding derived content. --[[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 10:55, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

			== Beyond the Red Line ==

			Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)

Serenity: /* Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article */

2007-06-25T15:55:43Z

Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article

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	:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
	::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[Battlestar_Wiki:Original_Series_Article_Development_Project\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[Battlestar_Wiki:Original_Series_Article_Development_Project\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

			::I wouldn't consider myself an expert on developing articles, since I haven't really created many and one of two of them I cobbled together from other articles. But it's probably right that I can be very nitpicky when it comes to enforcing standards, and I do a lot of cleanup.
			::Anyways, the way you wrote it is fine. It doesn't need to be too elaborate. Any details can usually be found in the episode article you link to. But keep in mind that the standard tense here is present tense, except for event prior to the Miniseries. And for episode titles we put the commas outside the quotation marks, as those aren't real sentences. That's all detailed in [[BW:SAC]]. But noone expects that you get every little style thing right at the beginning, as others can clean up stuff.
			::As for the content. I'm not sure. It's certainly enough to conclude that ''something'' else might be at play. Whether that something is a big artificial intelligence is another thing. I'll see what others like Spence or Joe think about this. They have the strictest standard regarding derived content. --[[User:Serenity\|Serenity]] 10:55, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

Steelviper: /* Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article */ fix OSAD link

2007-06-25T15:19:48Z

Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article: fix OSAD link

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	:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].		:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].
	:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
	::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[BW:~~OSAD~~\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[Battlestar_Wiki:Original_Series_Article_Development_Project\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

Steelviper: /* Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article */ random rambling

2007-06-25T15:17:48Z

Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article: random rambling

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	:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].		:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].
	:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
			::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[BW:OSAD\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

Catrope: /* Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article */ helping (hopefully)

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Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article: helping (hopefully)

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	:I'll butt out now, but if you have any other questions of me (or any of the other sysops), feel free to ask. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 21:53, 24 June 2007 (CDT)		:I'll butt out now, but if you have any other questions of me (or any of the other sysops), feel free to ask. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 21:53, 24 June 2007 (CDT)

			:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].
			:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

Steelviper: /* Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article */ butting in, briefly

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Letter to Critics of the Technological Singularity Article: butting in, briefly

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	Thank you for reading and withstanding my bad writing. I await your criticisms.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 20:28, 24 June 2007 (CDT)		Thank you for reading and withstanding my bad writing. I await your criticisms.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 20:28, 24 June 2007 (CDT)
			:I'm not familiar with all the background of this, but I will go ahead and weigh in on some of the citation questions, as I am comfortable at least answering that. Regarding citing onscreen evidence, a show title is sufficient. Just throw a parenthetical link to the episode in parenthesis at the end of the sentence/paragraph (remember the period goes AFTER the outer quotation mark, that's just the way we roll around here). Bonus points if you take the time to use [[:Template:Cite episode]]. That template utilizes the "references" section, so it looks really snazzy, and it allows you to specify down to the minute if you want (which is great if you can nail it down). Quotes aren't required (you can use plot points), but be careful to drive off of what is concretely seen.

			:As [[BW:CITE]] points out, Wikipedia is NOT generally a good source. This is not a slight to Wikipedia, just that it really doesn't even claim to be a source itself. It (like us) should merely be a collection of citations to other credible sources, so ideally you'd point to the parent source. As for online sources to be considered credible... there's not a hidden "list", by any means, other than the one provided on the BW:CITE page. Generally real world articles aren't heavily pointed to as Battlestar Wiki is more dedicated to documenting what goes on in and around the show more than how the real world stuff works. Though I see the dilemma of needing to justify in-universe theories with real world concepts, and in that case citing credible sources to back your theory would be excellent.

			:Both Spencerian and Serenity are really good contacts to develop the type of article you are describing. The number of citations you're able to quickly produce is very encouraging and points towards a good probability of success. (Unfounded speculation is the enemy, thought-provoking and well-cited analysis is something to aspire to.)

			:I'll butt out now, but if you have any other questions of me (or any of the other sysops), feel free to ask. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 21:53, 24 June 2007 (CDT)

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	Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)		Good theory, I hadn't thought of that. But of course it is possible to jump to certain systems and charter them at regular intervals, providing a semi-up-to-date star chart which is more up-to-date than a telescope-generated one. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 16:09, 30 June 2007 (CDT)
	:Guess that's why they are always sending out those Raptors. They're not just scouting, but getting those star charts that Galactica dosn't need to generate at the moment. But still just to store all that data has to be a pain.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 17:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)		:Guess that's why they are always sending out those Raptors. They're not just scouting, but getting those star charts that Galactica dosn't need to generate at the moment. But still just to store all that data has to be a pain.--[[User:DuMan\|DuMan]] 17:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)
			::There are things to throw away as well, though: nobody's gonna need star charts of the Colonies or New Caprica :P --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 02:13, 1 July 2007 (CDT)

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	:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].		:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].
	:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
	::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[BW:~~OSAD~~\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[Battlestar_Wiki:Original_Series_Article_Development_Project\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

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	:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].		:Simply saying something like: "Baltar conveniently guesses the weak point in the Cylon tylium factory ([[The Hand of God (RDM)\|The Hand of God]])" should be good enough. Citing Wikipedia is no problem as long as the Wikipedia article in question provides good cites. You can use [[Template:Ext-wikipedia]] or [[Template:Ext-wikipedia-name]] to link to a Wikipedia article in the External links section of a page (currently, 52 articles do this). If you have any questions about using these templates, [[User talk:Catrope\|ask me]]. To link to a Wikipedia article in the body of an article, you can use <code><nowiki>[[w:Article\|Link text]]</nowiki></code>, which will show up as [[w:Article\|Link text]].
	:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)		:Steelviper is right that Spencerian and Serenity are the best contacts to help you in writing the actual article, as they are the ones who write most of the content around here. --[[User:Catrope\|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope\|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope\|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
			::Lots of people write content around here, but Spencerian and Serenity are also extremely familiar with the [[BW:SAC\|S's and C's]], and Spencerian has a great deal of experience creating new articles as well as developing analysis-type articles. There's FAR too much content in the Battlestar Galactica universe (especially when you consider the 1980 and TOS content) to saddle the load just on one person (or a few people). Not that it hasn't been tried, but the results usually aren't that stellar. The best one-person show I can think of off the top of my head is the [http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/concord.html BG Concordance], which we are still [[BW:OSAD\|catching up to]] in terms of having articles that correspond to all its entries. And that's for a show with ONE season. I didn't want in any way to minimize how crucial Spencerian and Serenity are to the wiki, but I did want to emphasize how important it is for the long term success of the wiki to utilize (and cultivate) a multitude of contributors. Speaking of which, I'll try to get some TOS work knocked out today after I get some errands knocked out. --[[User:Steelviper\|Steelviper]] 10:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)